Today we went to the Gulf Coast Hot Air Balloon Festival. It was quite a big shindig with 50 hot air balloons scheduled to fly and glow at 6:00 AM and again at sunset.
And live music blaring out of this huge speaker set.
As soon as we arrived we got a snack of hot boiled peanuts.
There's nothing like hot fresh boiled peanuts. Yummy!
Grace was so funny, she kept munching on the shells to get to the peanuts inside. We offered to help but she just kept saying, "No. My turn. I do it by myself!"
Soon it was time to start blowing the balloons up. Like I said earlier, there was a lot of people there...
I don't think I've ever seen Grace so excited over anything before. She kept jumping up and down and yelling, "Yook! Yook at dat BIG boon!" (Look! Look at that big balloon!)
And she loved watching the flames inside the balloons. I think she may grow up to be another firebug...
Then the wind started kicking up and balloons started crashing into each other so they decided to deflate the balloons and not fly them. It's not safe to fly the balloons when the wind is blowing stronger than 10 miles per hour. Or during the lightening storm that was rolling in.
Needless to say, Grace was very disappointed.
She kept yelling, "Nooooo! Not duh boons! Fix duh boons" (No! Not the balloons! Fix the balloons!)
But then she got to stand next to one of the baskets and that cheered her up somewhat.
Actually, it cheered her up quite a bit.
She could have gotten inside the basket, but that was a bit more adventurous than Grace was prepared for. Instead she just let her Daddy hold her up next to it. There was so much to do at this festival that I think we will definitely go to it again next year. Hopefully the weather will cooperate better then.
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